But at the end of an election, all the energy and excitement culminates in an unsettled feeling. There’s a sense of finality, but also, hopefully, of a new adventure. Moving on from a family whose child you cared for. Was I? Professional lives have natural chapters: the end of a big case, the end of the school year. She promised her supporters that she was “optimistic.” Conceding, Quinn said she was disappointed but still believed in New York City’s future. I watched her end her campaign, and her political career, as Katy Perry’s “Roar” blared across her somber election-night gathering at the Dream hotel in Chelsea. That evening, Quinn, whose close ties to Bloomberg were both an asset and her undoing, came in a distant third to Bill de Blasio.
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I wasn’t sure exactly what memo I had missed about how to get one of those, but I knew I was miserable.
My college friends had cool-sounding jobs at The Paris Review and Paper magazine. Right after graduating from a small liberal arts college outside Philadelphia, I’d moved to a New York so defined by the billionaire mayor, and taken a reporting job I found on Craigslist that involved reverse commuting to Long Island, where I covered challah shortages and spelling bees for a weekly Jewish newspaper that catered to Orthodox communities. After 12 years, Mike Bloomberg was leaving office and the entire city was gripped by the question of what would come next. I had recently turned 30 and the assignment made me feel like I was at the center of the universe.
When I was a tabloid reporter for the New York Daily News, there was Christine Quinn, the redheaded, Irish American, lesbian Speaker of the New York City Council, with a booming voice and a hearty laugh, who at one point was widely assumed to be the mayor-in-waiting of New York. Everything that I’ve learned about covering politics, I’ve learned from covering losing candidates.
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